Intercalation of a new tier of transcription regulation into an ancient circuit

Nature

Volumn 468, Issue 7326, 2010, Pages 959-963

  Booth, Lauren N ^a   Tuch, Brian B ^a,b   Johnson, Alexander D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AMGEN INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETERODIMER; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MATA1 PROTEIN; MATA2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

GENOME; MATING BEHAVIOR; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN; YEAST;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BEHAVIOR; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FUNGAL GENE; GENE TARGETING; HAPLOIDY; INTERCALATION COMPLEX; KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; KLUYVEROMYCES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 78650344876     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09560     Document Type: Article

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